ACHTUNG: DIE LANDSCHAFT IDEAS FOR THE SWISS AGGLOMERATIONIn 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt, and Markus Kutter published
achtung: die Schweiz, a warning aboutthe increasing level of sprawl
throughout the Swiss landscape and a plea for a new and better
controlledurbanity in the form of high-density settlements. Sixty years
later, the level of alarm against the increasinglevels of urban sprawl
has not diminished and yet single-family houses and low-density
settlements stillunabatedly continue to threaten the Swiss landscape.
Openly alluding to the book of 1955, achtung: dieLandschaft suggests a
different yet radical point of view. Reclaiming a central role of
Landschaft-land,landscape, and the entire un-built territory-as a remedy
to current urban conditions, the understanding of theSwiss Un-built
territory becomes the lens through which alternative strategies and
visions for the future cannow advance. |
